CVE-2023-4842

MEDIUM

Social Warfare <4.4.3 - XSS

Title source: llm

Description

The Social Sharing Plugin - Social Warfare plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'social_warfare' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 4.4.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Exploits (1)

nomisec WRITEUP

by B4ntGrim · poc

https://github.com/B4ntGrim/Vuln_Exploitation_MegaQuagga_Pentest

View Code ZIP pw:eip

References (4)

[Product] https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/social-warfare/tags/4.4.1/lib/buttons-panel/SWP_Buttons_Panel_Trait.php#L304

[Product] https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/social-warfare/tags/4.4.1/lib/buttons-panel/SWP_Buttons_Panel_Trait.php#L877

[Patch] https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2982662/social-warfare#file0

[Third Party Advisory] https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8f5b9aff-0833-4887-ae59-df5bc88c7f91?source=cve

Scores

CVSS v3 6.4

EPSS 0.0019

EPSS Percentile 40.4%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-79

Status published

Products (2)

warfareplugins/Social Sharing Plugin – Social Warfare < 4.4.3

warfareplugins/social_warfare < 4.4.3

Published Nov 07, 2023

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026